• Johnson & Johnson entered a collaboration with the Department of Health - Abu Dhabi to launch a global program to build an open surgical intelligence network, with Abu Dhabi set to become the first node.
• The initiative will integrate the Polyphonic open digital ecosystem with the emirate’s health system, with AWS and NVIDIA participating as technology partners.
• Polyphonic Surgery is expected to be deployed across operating rooms to capture high-fidelity surgical video and multimodal data for curation and labeling in a governed infrastructure aimed at accelerating AI development across the surgical workflow.
• Hospitals including Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, PureHealth, Mediclinic Group, and NMC Healthcare are slated to deploy the platform, supporting real-time collaboration and structured case review while building an anonymized dataset for AI development.

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